Anderson v. Sutton

This is an action in ejectment for the recovery of the possession of a tract of land constituting an accretion to a New Madrid claim in Boone County on the Missouri River, and damages for withholding the possession of same, and for monthly rents and profits. The right of the plaintiff to the possession was conceded; and a trial to a jury was had upon the other issues, resulting in a verdict in plaintiff’s favor for the possession without damages, and the assessment of the monthly rents and profits at two hundred and seventy-five dollars. From this judgment the plaintiff has appealed.

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